----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: VAX1::WALSHOP 12-MAY-1993 16:05:52.53 To: BITNET%"maps-l@psuvm" BITNET%"govdoc-l@psuvm" CC: WALSHOP Subj: ALA MAGERT Field Trip This message is being cross posted on Maps-L and Govdoc-L. Please excuse the duplication. The Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT) has scheduled its annual field trip, held at the end of the ALA Annual Conference, on Wednesday, June 30, 1993. It will be a tour of the John C. Stennis Space Center, the USGS' Applications Systems Facility and ESIC, and the Naval Oceanographic Office Technical Library and SUper Computing facility, which are located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (approximately 45 miles NE of New Orleans). The day will conclude with a Crayfish Boil. A detailed itinerary for the day can be found at the end of this message. The cost of the tour is $25.00. This includes air conditioned, coach bus, round trip transportation from the Hotel St. Marie in New Orleans and the crayfish boil. Lunch is on your own. There will be a limited number of seats available for the tour (40-45). This depends on the seating of the bus. If want to reserve a spot on the tour you can do so by contacting me, Jim Walsh, by e-mail, telephone, U.S. mail, or in person (if you happen to be in Boston) [all addresses are listed below]. The $25.00 check should be made out to: JIM WALSH; and mailed to the following address: JIM WALSH, 161 BOUTELLE ST., FITCHBURG, MA 01420. Requests will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. I would appreciate receiving requests and checks by June 15, 1993. The day's itinerary follows: 9:00 a.m. Depart Hotel St. Marie, New Orleans 9:00 -- 10:00 Travel to Bay St. Louis 10:00 -- 10:30 Tour Stennis Space Center Visitor's Center 10:30 -- 11:30 Tour NASA Test Stand Site 11:30 -- 12:30 Lunch in the cafeteria (on your own) 12:30 -- 1:30 Tour of USGS Applications Assistance Facility and ESIC 1:30 -- 2:30 Tour Naval Oceanographic Office Technical Library 3:00 -- 4:00 Tour Super Computer facility 4:30 -- 6:00 Crayfish (a.k.a., Crawdad) Boil 6:00 Depart Bay St. Louis 6:00 -- 7:00 Travel to Hotel St. Marie, New Orleans 7:00 p.m. Arrive Hotel St. Marie If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at the following: Jim Walsh O'Neill Library Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 617-552-3354 (voice) 617-552-8828 (fax) walshop@bcvms (bitnet) [log in to unmask] (internet) **NOTE: please remember to mail your checks to my home address, 161 Boutelle St., Fitchburg, MA 01420 Thanks for taking the time to read through this long note. It sounds like a great day. Hope you can make it. Finally, please feel free to share this information with colleagues who are not on either of these lists.